162. Our Stories and First Trips on Points

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, How To, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How did Alex, Pam, and Jess go from confusion about points and miles to becoming the Points Talk Squad? In this episode, they each share their personal journeys into the world of award travel. From initial curiosity to their first unforgettable trips, they discuss how discovering points and miles changed the way they travel.

You'll hear how each of them navigated the learning curve, discovered the thrill of maximizing rewards, and shaped their travel experiences in a new way. Listen in for their stories of overcoming confusion, finding the right strategies, and building a passion for travel that continues today.

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0:00.0	Ever wondered how and why we got started traveling on points? Today, we're sharing just that,
0:05.5	plus our first trips on points. Welcome to Points Talk. We are three moms who've discovered
0:11.3	how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel
0:16.0	expenses for nearly free. We've used credit card points of miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii,
0:22.2	Paris, Greece, Maldives, Japan, and so much more. And the best part, we each still have 800 plus
0:28.7	credit scores. Imagine being able to take the vacation of your dreams for nearly free. It's totally
0:34.3	possible and we're here to show you how.
0:40.5	Hey, I'm Alex.
0:42.8	And I'm Pam, Alex's mom.
0:44.2	And I'm Jess.
0:45.3	Let's talk points.
0:55.3	So it seems like we've been traveling on points forever, but it wasn't too long ago that we were just like many of you, you know, just getting started with this points and miles hobby. So today we are sharing how we got into points and miles, why we got into
1:01.2	points and miles, and what our very first trips on points and miles work. So Alex is going to kick it off
1:07.0	with how she got started. Okay. So I have a friend from college and she started posting about all
1:16.1	these trips that she was taking, like on Facebook. And I remember being like, what in the world?
1:21.4	How, like, they took their kids to the Maldives. They had, I think, a couple young kids at the time.
1:27.4	They're traveling all over the world. Her husband was in law school. I'm like, I know these young people that are students can't afford to be traipsing the whole world with their kids. How in the world are they doing this? So I reached out to her. I asked her about it. I actually found a, I found a screenshot
1:47.9	from Facebook Messenger or a message from Facebook Messenger. I took a screenshot of it years ago
1:52.5	when I found it and I have it saved on my phone because I'm like, this is so funny. It's like my
1:56.1	beginnings, almost my beginnings because I actually didn't do anything with the information
2:00.7	she gave me or do much.
2:02.2	But it was from 2014 and in the message, I'm like, hey, how are you guys doing this?
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